Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/07/15
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Rick Rosner: Lincoln: “My captain, my captain…” in the words of Walt Whitman as his coffin was being brought by train and horse-drawn carriage, from where he was assassinated to where he would be buried in Illinois. The Saviour of the union, then you’ve got this guy who is o bad that he was the first president ever impeached. Obviously, the nation was wrecked. First by the Civil War and then by the loss of the leader during the Civil war.
From Woodrow Wilson to Harding, who may have been our most corrupt president or dumbest and least competent president.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: Until now. You had the joy at the end of WWI, which happened under Woodrow Wilson kind of because he was president in name and had a stroke a couple of years earlier and the country was secretly being run by other people including Mrs. Wilson. But going from the end of WWI, you’ve got the attempt to form the League of Nations. The precursor to the United Nations, to make sure the great war was the war to end all wars. The League of Nations was falling apart. You’ve got impetus to social reform with Prohibition and Women’s Suffrage. you’ve got an economy that is beginning to boom. You’ve got the beginning of the 10 years of a tech economy before the crash of 29, and then in the middle of this you’ve got Warren Harding who was a machine politician and was elected in large part for his time being a handsome man.
A stout man with lots of grey hair and bushy eyebrows. He was letting his friends in the Cabinet, who was banging his mistress in the closet of the White House. Then who at least had the courtesy of dying a year and half or two years into the administration. He was replaced by a non entity of a person, who was his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge or “Silent Cal.” Who was known for not being interesting at all.
Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: A human placeholder.
Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: A little bit like Pence if Pence didn’t have his creepy ideas about gays and women. The other two times we had a huge step down, and it was a great thing either. The end.
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People, Personas, and Politics 45 – My Captain, My Captain
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/07/15
[Beginning of recorded material]
Rick Rosner: Lincoln: “My captain, my captain…” in the words of Walt Whitman as his coffin was being brought by train and horse-drawn carriage, from where he was assassinated to where he would be buried in Illinois. The Saviour of the union, then you’ve got this guy who is o bad that he was the first president ever impeached. Obviously, the nation was wrecked. First by the Civil War and then by the loss of the leader during the Civil war.
From Woodrow Wilson to Harding, who may have been our most corrupt president or dumbest and least competent president.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: Until now. You had the joy at the end of WWI, which happened under Woodrow Wilson kind of because he was president in name and had a stroke a couple of years earlier and the country was secretly being run by other people including Mrs. Wilson. But going from the end of WWI, you’ve got the attempt to form the League of Nations. The precursor to the United Nations, to make sure the great war was the war to end all wars. The League of Nations was falling apart. You’ve got impetus to social reform with Prohibition and Women’s Suffrage. you’ve got an economy that is beginning to boom. You’ve got the beginning of the 10 years of a tech economy before the crash of 29, and then in the middle of this you’ve got Warren Harding who was a machine politician and was elected in large part for his time being a handsome man.
A stout man with lots of grey hair and bushy eyebrows. He was letting his friends in the Cabinet, who was banging his mistress in the closet of the White House. Then who at least had the courtesy of dying a year and half or two years into the administration. He was replaced by a non entity of a person, who was his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge or “Silent Cal.” Who was known for not being interesting at all.
Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: A human placeholder.
Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosner: A little bit like Pence if Pence didn’t have his creepy ideas about gays and women. The other two times we had a huge step down, and it was a great thing either. The end.
[End of recorded material]
License
In-Sight Publishing by Scott Douglas Jacobsen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at www.in-sightjournal.com.
Copyright
© Scott Douglas Jacobsen and In-Sight Publishing 2012-2022. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Scott Douglas Jacobsen and In-Sight Publishing with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. All interviewees and authors co-copyright their material and may disseminate for their independent purposes.
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